Updates

Nice of José Padilha to acknowledge the central role that Saul’s book played in the making of his motion picture ‘7 Days of Entebbe’. He said: ‘There’s been a recent book written by British historian Saul David that we based the screenplay on. [It contains] years of research… and, basically, Saul argues that the operation was successful because of the terrorists’ Click here to read the full interview

Saul’s next TV appearance is discussing Tudor military warfare on England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey, a 3-part BBC4 documentary presented by Helen Castor. It airs on Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th January at 9pm.

The trailer for the feature film Entebbe, made using  Saul’s book Operation Thunderbolt (and for which Saul was the historical consultant), has just been released by distributor eOne: Click here to watch

The film, starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl, will be screened in UK cinemas from 9 March 2018. It’s also being released in the US as 7 Days in Entebbe from 16 March 2018: Click here to watch the US trailer

Saul will present a new 2 x 1 hour history series called ‘War Above The Trenches’ for UKTV Yesterday and French channel RMC Découverte. Filming begins in late November and the series will air in 2018.

Saul has started work on a new history book – The Force – about a small unit of US/Canadian special forces who carry out mission impossible in World War Two. It has been commissioned by New York publishing giant Hachette Books and will appear in the US in the autumn of 2019.

Saul’s third novel – The Prince and the Whitechapel Murders (the third in the Zulu Hart series) – is now finished and will be published by Hodder in the UK on 22 February 2018.

The feature film ‘Entebbe’ – based on my book ‘Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe’, and directed by José Padilha and starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl – will debut at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2018, and will go on general release in US and UK cinemas on 16 March.

There is still space on the 2017-18 Master’s in Military History by Research programme that Saul runs for the University of Buckingham in London. Applications close on 30 September 2017. Full-time and part-time options available, as well as associate studentships (which do not require a written component, but instead give the student access to lectures and dinners).

For further details on the lecture dates and how to apply, see the Academic section of this website, the University of Buckingham website (www.buckingham.ac.uk/humanities/ma/militaryhistory ) or contact Maria Floyd in Humanities Research Admissions on +44 (0)1280 827514
Email: humanitiespg-admissions@buckingham.ac.uk

Saul’s OPERATION THUNDERBOLT, on the daring rescue of hostages from Entebbe airport in 1976, has been selected for the Paperback Row section of last weekend’s New York Times Book Review: ‘David recounts the episode in thrilling, minute by minute detail.’ Click here for full review